No day trips during the beastly heat wave--just a quick trip to the library.
This week the "Deal Me In" card is the Three of Diamonds; the story is De Amicitia (in Orientations by W Somerset Maugham)
Online...
The Guardian's Poem of the week: Typewriter by Matthew Francis
Loved the poem; the commentary (by Carol Rumens) following was OK even if it did remind me of those dreary lit classes where we picked at a writing until it was completely dead.
'My daring grandfather took a bit of East Berlin for himself' by Elaine Chong
The story of the Treehouse on the Wall, das Baumhaus an der Mauer.
from Project Gutenberg...
Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde by Don Watson
Published in 1954 by the Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado
Many photographs. I think I used this as a source for one of my junior high term papers.
from the library...
Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays by Péter Nádas; translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein
from my shelves...
Just Call Me Superhero by Alina Bronsky; translated from the German by Tim Mohr
Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono; translated from the Japanese by Angus Turvill
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
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